Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:00:53 +0100 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops |
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On 11-12-07 20:16, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> Pavel Machek already posted one. His udelay(8) wants to be less -- 1 or "to >> be safe" perhaps 2. >> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/9/131 > > 2 at least; that's how long outb(0x80) takes on one of my > machines. Actually, ISA can go down to 4MHz, so maybe we should be > using 4 usec.... but I guess I'm paranoid here.
4 isn't sensible. There have been machines capable both of running Linux and their ISA bus at less than 8 MHz (if only for example by picking a 5 divisor on a system that was capable of hosting a 40 Mhz 386/486 but using a slower CPU) but not by much. And machines doing that and running Linux, even more so "today": 0.
My posted test program (although there seems to be something wrong with it since it's influenced by compiler optimisation) is showing more than 1 but note that on the vast majority of machines, 0 would in fact do. 1 will on all, 2 will as well.
Rene.
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